Giraldi Cinthio, Giovanni Battista LA PRIMA (-SECONDA) PARTE DE GLI HECATOMMITHI. MONDOVÍ: LEONARDO TORRENTINO, 1565 2 volumes, 8vo (173 x 100mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-pages (volume 1 with two title-pages, each actually the title for volume 2 with the text amended in manuscript), woodcut portrait of the author of verso of titles, with 6 additional printed leaves containing Gioannini's Life of Giraldi extracted from the 1593 edition (Censimento 16 CNCE 21288) bound in the preliminaries to volume 1, with a duplicate of leaf Dd8 in volume 2 with manuscript addition "Historia d'Anna Bolena d'Inghilterra e d'Henrico ottavo" and of Mm1, with index and errata at end of volume 2, nineteenth-century brown-painted vellum-backed boards, red morocco lettering-pieces, both title-pages in volume 1 repaired with some text replaced in manuscript, the first laid down but showing portrait on verso, first quire and preface to fifth deca of volume 1 repaired in gutter, joints cracking
Giraldi Cinthio, Giovanni Battista LA PRIMA (-SECONDA) PARTE DE GLI HECATOMMITHI. MONDOVÍ: LEONARDO TORRENTINO, 1565 2 volumes, 8vo (173 x 100mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-pages (volume 1 with two title-pages, each actually the title for volume 2 with the text amended in manuscript), woodcut portrait of the author of verso of titles, with 6 additional printed leaves containing Gioannini's Life of Giraldi extracted from the 1593 edition (Censimento 16 CNCE 21288) bound in the preliminaries to volume 1, with a duplicate of leaf Dd8 in volume 2 with manuscript addition "Historia d'Anna Bolena d'Inghilterra e d'Henrico ottavo" and of Mm1, with index and errata at end of volume 2, nineteenth-century brown-painted vellum-backed boards, red morocco lettering-pieces, both title-pages in volume 1 repaired with some text replaced in manuscript, the first laid down but showing portrait on verso, first quire and preface to fifth deca of volume 1 repaired in gutter, joints cracking
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